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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

I've been working my way through Dominique Crenn's marvelous cookbook Atelier Crenn: Metamorphosis of Taste. Many of the recipes there (not to mention elBulli 2005-2011) call for a juicer to reduce ingredients to juice and a fine pulp. So I looked around at options and settled on a sort of middle of the road Breville model, the JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus. My first project was to create carrot pulp for one of the parts of Crenn's Carrot Jerky. Not surprisingly, this resulted in the pulp (which was then dehydrated) and also about a cup of carrot juice. I certainly wasn't going to dump it, but plain carrot juice didn't sound especially tasty. A quick Google came up with a couple reasonable looking carrot juice drinks from which I adapted this version:

Apple/Carrot/Ginger

Ingredients

225 gramsCarrot

325 gramsApple

10 gramsGinger

Cooking Directions

Wash the carrots and apple.

Trim the carrot ends.

Quarter the apple.

Process on high speed.

Super simple, and pretty tasty. Depending on how much water is in your vegetables you'll see about a pint of very tasty juice.

While using the byproduct from a complex recipe is a good thing, that doesn't get a lot of action from a rather expensive gadget. After some more Googling I found the "Reboot With Joe" website. Regardless of what one may think of the claims on his site, Joe Cross does have a huge number of really tasty looking recipes. His "Mean Green" juice is something of a classic that I've adapted here:

Joe's Green Juice

Ingredients

200 gramsKale leaves

170 gramsCucumber

200 gramsCelery Stalks

650 gramsApples

30 gramsLemon

20 gramsGinger

Cooking Directions

Carefully wash all ingredients. Quarter the apples.

Process Kale, cucumber, and lemon on low speed.

Process remaining ingredients on high speed.

Note: Weights are based on the produce I used and should be considered a guideline only. To adapt, treat the weight of the apple as 100% and work proportionally for the other ingredients.

About Me

Grew up here and there in the mid-west, went to college, dropped out, got married, moved to Chicago, got divorced, Moved to Minneapolis, got married, played in Cats Laughing, had a son, moved to Chicago, moved to Philadelphia, returned to college, sent son to college, graduated Magna Cum Laude in Classics, son dropped out, son joined the Navy, and here I am still married and retired at last!

But wait... there's more!

In the Fall of 2016 I'll be starting the MA program in Mediterranean Archaeology at The University of Nottingham.